Either they are your own pictures that you uploaded to your PC first and then to an online album - or you just google the web for pics others have taken and placed there (which you then save on your PC and put in an online album).

It's funny, but we never intended to end up here. We were just passing through on a long weekend getaway, and saw an intriguing "For Sale" sign at the top of long, steep, meandering driveway. When we got to the bottom, there was this lovely, shabby little cottage in the midst of an overgrown garden, overlooking a gem of a cove. It was love at first sight.

And I love Ath's pics, too (the one posted here and the one in your avatar space) - don't quite know what you're talking about either, though - what island? And what cove?

Well, so I'm not just badgering you with questions, I thought I'd add a pic myself - I used to have a tiny version of this in my avatar on b77, but I thought I'd show a bigger version - it's some clematis seed I photographed on an autumn walk a few years ago.

_________________“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

I tend to focus on the beauty of small things and I like this pic because it's an example of how delicately and interestingly even the most peripheral things are shaped. That's why I put it in my avatar (well, basically I didn't feel safe enough there anymore to have a pic of myself there), but I agree you couldn't see much there.

Yes, I think "unearthly" describes your pic. It would seem to me to be one of those beauties that has been marred - but came out beautiful nevertheless! You know, the things that were not planned this way, the things that Melkor tried to ruin - and in the end they turned out stunning after all!

(Is it ok to discuss the pics in here, btw? I tend to get gushing when I see a pic that impresses me! )

Yes. Probably the loveliest thing I've ever had a real part in creating.

Thank you.

_________________“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

_________________“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Our place is tucked away close to the head of the cove in the upper righthand side of the photo - you can just see the beginning of our property before it disappears into the shadows. We live on a small island just off the southern coast of British Columbia, between the mainland and Vancouver Island, part of a chain that we call the Gulf Islands, and the Americans call the San Juan Islands.

Voronwë, that photo of Bryce Canyon is stunning, simply stunning. It always astonishes me how light can give such life to the colours of the bare bones of the earth. Amazing.

Hobby. I've always admired that pic in your avatar. To see it in such detail is a real treat. It reminds me of the gossamer nets that some spiders weave all over the meadow and garden here in the autumn. I have a strange affinity for spider webs. I think they're the most beautiful and miraculous things.

Prim, I've never been to Yellowstone, but pictures of it remind me a lot of the lower slopes of the southern Canadian Rockies in my own province of B.C. I love your daughter's pose. The last photos my own girl permitted us to take of her was when we were travelling through Mexico when she was just shy of 13. I have this great pic of my mom and me holding her down between us on the steps of a ruined temple at Mitla, and she's actually laughing about it. Now, she insists on taking her own artsy-fartsy self-portraits, which, I must admit, are really very good. She's very much looking forward to taking a course in media arts next semester. That reminds me........some of the photographs your son composes are breathtaking. Will we be seeing some of them here? (she inquires hopefully)

Athrabeth, I'll tell my son what you said! He always just glows when his work is praised. And yes, I will be using some of his photos here, I'm sure. He's much more gifted than I am (and now has a much better camera, which he earned doing yard work last summer).

Here's one I happen to have on Photobucket already:

Probably not strictly correct, as it has a structure in it! I'll do better later when I can get into his iPhoto files.

_________________“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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